The video is an informal, family‑style tour of Ramble Farm in Bend, Oregon, hosted by a narrator (Speaker A) and featuring farm members Amber, Jim, Lily, and others. The centerpiece is a subterranean greenhouse built over a defunct swimming pool that had sat empty for 16 years; the family repurposed it into a year‑round garden using soil, manure, and solar heating from the concrete mass. They showcase giant pumpkins grown for their 850‑lb pig, a mobile chicken coop dubbed the "Chicken Airstream" built by Amber’s husband Chris, and various crops (zucchini, squash, figs, peppers, tomatoes, beets, beans). The tour includes anecdotes about soil depletion, manure management (chicken and horse), winter warming strategies, and the challenges of reviving an abandoned property. Lighthearted banter, hugs, and farewells punctuate the walkthrough, and the host encourages viewers to follow the farm’s story on the Hardiness Approach YouTube channel.
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Look at what is possible in this subterranean greenhouse. Was once a swimming pool, is now a thriving garden. Describe how it makes you feel to be tearing down your garden.
I am not enjoying this at all. Not something I look forward to, but what I do to help is I'm envisioning the next garden.
Good man, that Jim. Good man. Hey, beautiful one, I've got the bus ready to go. We're gonna just back it up and hook up the van. 11 more states, guys. You feel like we're on the home stretch yet?
Yeah, it does feel—
you do?
It does.
Yeah, look, we're getting closer at home every, every mile.
By the time we get to the end of— by the time we get to the end of October, we're gonna be in Arizona, and we're gonna have hit California, Nevada, Hawaii, and Arizona.
How's it gonna feel to put that last sticker on?
It's gonna be so weird.
Thanks for being here. One little pumpkin. Thank you. Can I have a hug?
Can you go get a hug?
Can I have a hug?
Oh, okay.
Hugs, Lily.
Oh, Renda would like a hug from the North Carolina Lily. Good hug.
That's right, that is a great hug. We're missing somebody. Josiah, do you need a hug? Okay, he doesn't like hugs.
Well, we were glad you were here, Josiah.
Goodbye.
Goodbye. Thanks for being here.
And it's not goodbye, it's no, it's not.
See you later. Absolutely.
We will see you.
Bye-bye, everybody in that wants their food.
Bye-bye. Thanks for everything. Good luck with the new move. If folks want to keep up with their story, check out their YouTube channel, Hardiness Approach. I'll leave the link there and down in the description. See ya.
Be safe.
Drive safe.
Bend, Oregon, y'all. Our next stop on the farm tour. Oh my word, I think that's a record-breaking zucchini, Amber.
We grow them big so that the pigs can have them. That's basically what—
so you grow them for pig food?
Uh-huh.
Okay, come on, you gotta have to carry them, guys. Can you carry that?
I can't.
Do you want a smaller one?
Okay, I'll help you. So tell us who you are and where we are.
I am Amber and we are in Bend, Oregon at, uh, Ramble Farm.
Okay, come here, girls.
Okay, throw it. Good job. Good job.
This what you do full-time?
No, actually we both work full-time.
She has stuff growing everywhere. Oh yeah, there's the big pumpkins right there.
We've got—
you've got more squash here. Did you plant these on purpose? Is this volunteer?
This is all on purpose. This place was abandoned for 3.5 years before we moved in, and the soil is completely depleted. The house was completely a wreck. There was nothing growing here. It was all dirt and sagebrush.
Tell me about this greenhouse. It looks awful short from right here, but I see it's in a swimming pool.
Yes, it's over a swimming pool that was— has been defunct for like 16 years, and we weren't real sure what to do with it. And so it sat for 2 years before we got the bright idea to put a lid on it.
Okay.
And grow stuff inside of it.
Let's see it. Where'd you get this idea?
Um, I have no idea. I just— we had it full of dirt and garbage, and because we didn't know what to do with it, we thought we were going to fill it in. And one day I was on the internet looking at stuff and I saw the wapinis.
Okay.
And it just kind of— it was one of those things where I was like, oh my gosh, I can't believe I didn't think about this 4.
Okay.
And so it— this is its first year summer. Last winter we had the chickens in here to help kind of fertilize the, the dirt that we had in here. And this winter we won't put anything in it. We're going to try to grow stuff in it. We've got figs, peppers. I just pulled up a whole slew of tomatoes, chard, and beets. I like to kind of throw stuff in the ground and see how well it does here because not a lot grows real well here.
You looking for some pigs?
Have you guys tried them before?
You got one ready?
I've got a couple of them ready.
Here's one. Oh wow, you just eat it just like that?
Yeah, there you go.
Try it.
I don't like it. I don't like it.
Well, give it to somebody else.
You want to try one, honey? No, they're really good.
That one's very nice.
Yeah, they're my absolute favorite.
This—
hopefully we're going to build this up, build a wall here and build this up. And I've been collecting chicken manure to put in here, and we'll go out. I had a horse that I just sold, so we'll go and put, um, horse manure in here and try to make it warm for the winter. See what we can do.
You get the warmth from the This greenhouse above, and then this is a mass, so the sun heats up the concrete also, right? Yeah, it gets really warm.
Yeah.
Would you do it again?
Yeah. Oh yeah, definitely. I love it. I like to come out here and just dink around and hang out in here, especially when it's cold outside.
What you harvest in there?
Those are the dragon tongue beans, and we're kind of waiting.
You're getting some beans and some beets?
Yes. And then I think we've got some tomatoes over here.
Is that for dinner tonight?
Yes.
Wow.
Not this little guy, but this one.
You ready to eat some food out of a swimming pool?
Yes.
Huh?
You want to eat some food out of the swimming pool? What do you call this?
This is a subterranean greenhouse.
What is it? Some pepper. And we have the covered pan of food ready here, waiting to be done.
What are you gonna do with that one banana pepper?
He took a bite out of the tip of it, so we'll probably just—
now you have to give it to the chickens.
Yep.
You might notice there's two people missing. Mom and Josiah. They went to the town to do some errands. Wow. Yep, she's jamming those pumpkins. You growing that for your pig too?
Yep.
That's one snack for those big old pigs.
I know. Okay, ready to go inside?
This is kind of like— reminds me of a covered wagon.
Uh-huh.
You got you a covered wagon eggmobile here.
Chris calls it the chicken Airstream.
Oh, there you go.
And he— this is something that we just got done. Chris built it, my husband.
Well, there's a bunch of eggs in there, guys.
Here you go, guys.
Let him get one out, Jonah.
I like this idea—
pallets around your trees.
It is the only thing that we found that the pigs cannot completely destroy.
I like it. Those are cheap pallets.
Yes, free is the best.
Oh my gosh, look at this sleeping monster! Holy moly, what you been eating, buddy? You've been eating those pumpkins over there?
Come on.
Oh goodness, up we go. Surprised you don't eat this dog.
They've actually become friends. It's— I was really surprised because the first time he saw him, he kind of freaked out a little bit. No, it's just me.
That's the biggest pig I've ever seen. How much does he weigh?
Um, I ran him across the scales and he weighs 850 pounds.
Oh my gosh.
Yeah, he's a big boy.
You're a big boy. All right, Amber, thanks so much for the tour.
Glad to do it.
I appreciate you seeing those huge pigs.
Here he comes.
Your mobile chickens, your subterranean greenhouse. That's the first on the tour. Good job. What are y'all doing in the trough? You afraid of that friendly dog?
Yeah, he's a—
that dog won't hurt anybody.
All right, let's go. All right, you got those eggs?
